Who needs a truck?

[jminer]

So I'm in an empty house with no furniture as it'll be a couple weeks before movers with our stuff or my wife shows up. That meant I needed something to sleep on...

Facebook marketplace to the rescue - $40 futon time!

Now came getting it back home - no problem I've got a roof rack.

The people I bought it from thought I was crazy. 'how are you going to move it?' my reply was 'help me put it on the roof rack - I've got straps'.

They just stared at me for like 10 seconds and then then after we got it on the car I told them I had it from here they walked back to the house very slow and confused.

I laughed, strapped the sucker down and drove off.

Who needs a truck?

(I do, clearly but fuck it I'm making do)

[Chariotoflove]

@jminer
So my first question is did that come with the mattress? If not what will you put on it to not make it a torture rack?

And heck yeah, you’re talking to the guy who brought a 7 foot Christmas tree home with his 9 year old daughter using an RX-8. Truck entirely optional in my book.

[spacekraken]

Wagons=trucks with permanent bed cap

[dieseldub]

Probably still got over 30 MPG too... lol

[jminer]

@chariotoflove said in Who needs a truck?:

@jminer
So my first question is did that come with the mattress? If not what will you put on it to not make it a torture rack?

And heck yeah, you’re talking to the guy who brought a 7 foot Christmas tree home with his 9 year old daughter using an RX-8. Truck entirely optional in my book.

Yes it did, it's stuffed in the back of the wagon. It's not the most comfortable thing I've ever slept on by any means, but it'll do.

Before the wagon I've had multiple hatchbacks and frequently carried lumber in them - just got to get creative. Nicely done with the rx8!

[jminer]

@dieseldub said in Who needs a truck?:

Probably still got over 30 MPG too... lol

Ha! Probably, it was only like 8 miles from my place but there was highway on the way back.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

Please tell me you put something down so those legs didn't scratch the roof. I don't see it actually touching the roof rack at all.

[Chariotoflove]

@jminer Gracias! I hope the mat is nice and clean for you. Those things are great for people who like an extra firm mattress. Not so much for everyone else.

[jminer]

@whoistheleader said in Who needs a truck?:

Please tell me you put something down so those legs didn't scratch the roof. I don't see it actually touching the roof rack at all.

The front legs are barely touching the glass of the sunroof and the back we're not touching the hatch, but it was close. Also this car gets beat up pretty regularly hauling things by me so it's pretty far from show quality. Already quite a few scratches from hauling kayaks and canoes on and off that rack.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

Who needs a truck?

I'll tell you who doesn't...most of the people who have a truck, because 3/4 of them use them to get groceries and never actually use them haul anything or go off-road

[BicycleBuck]

@jminer I loved my futon. After we married, my wife convinced me to lend it to her cousin. It was her way of getting rid of it. Within the first semester, somebody got a little to rough and managed to break it.

I miss my futon.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@jminer Still, coulda strapped a blanket to the legs and avoided that. I think a scratched sunroof would be far more annoying than a scratched roof.

[jminer]

@whoistheleader sure, but I'm more of the kind that loves my cars mechanically and emotionally but not cosmetically. They get washed twice a year and scratches, scrapes and dings are badges of honor and love.

I know I'm in the minority of this opinion here, but it's me.

[jminer]

@rallydarkstrike said in Who needs a truck?:

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

Who needs a truck?

I'll tell you who doesn't...most of the people who have a truck, because 3/4 of them use them to get groceries and never actually use them haul anything or go off-road

When I've owned a truck it gets used like a truck. Hauling firewood, towing things, camping but I don't do these things every day so I have mostly owned a car for daily and at most had a beater truck, but usually not even that.

[BicycleBuck]

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

@rallydarkstrike said in Who needs a truck?:

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

Who needs a truck?

I'll tell you who doesn't...most of the people who have a truck, because 3/4 of them use them to get groceries and never actually use them haul anything or go off-road

When I've owned a truck it gets used like a truck. Hauling firewood, towing things, camping but I don't do these things every day so I have mostly owned a car for daily and at most had a beater truck, but usually not even that.

I owned a truck for a long time. I’ve made due with a trailer and something that can pull it, but I miss the ease of utility of having a truck. When my son leaves with his truck, I’ll probably buy another one.

[Mark Tucker]

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

@whoistheleader sure, but I'm more of the kind that loves my cars mechanically and emotionally but not cosmetically. They get washed twice a year and scratches, scrapes and dings are badges of honor and love.

I know I'm in the minority of this opinion here, but it's me.

I remember reading ages ago that one of the old-guard auto journalists (Patrick Bedard maybe?) owns a Jeep Scrambler that has NEVER been washed...

Around here, the MG gets washed and polished up regularly in the summertime, and my wife's car is kept clean, but my truck and the Toyota are always dirty and I wouldn't have it any other way. I sweep the leaves and junk out of the bed of the truck to keep it from turning to compost when it rains, but that's about it.

[DipodomysDeserti]

@rallydarkstrike Depends on where you live. Down here most owners use their trucks for truck things.

[jminer]

@mark-tucker Perfection - if I had a nice car like an MG it would stay clean too. I’m better about my motorcycles but they see enough gravel (or they used to in Missouri) that I didn’t care very much about their looks either.

[jminer]

@dipodomysdeserti said in Who needs a truck?:

@rallydarkstrike Depends on where you live. Down here most owners use their trucks for truck things.

That used to be the case where I grew up. Rural Missouri - there were a lot of trucks, but most of them used as trucks. Lots of farms, manual labor and hunting happening. Now they’re just everywhere.

[BicycleBuck]

@mark-tucker said in Who needs a truck?:

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

@whoistheleader sure, but I'm more of the kind that loves my cars mechanically and emotionally but not cosmetically. They get washed twice a year and scratches, scrapes and dings are badges of honor and love.

I know I'm in the minority of this opinion here, but it's me.

I remember reading ages ago that one of the old-guard auto journalists (Patrick Bedard maybe?) owns a Jeep Scrambler that has NEVER been washed...

Around here, the MG gets washed and polished up regularly in the summertime, and my wife's car is kept clean, but my truck and the Toyota are always dirty and I wouldn't have it any other way. I sweep the leaves and junk out of the bed of the truck to keep it from turning to compost when it rains, but that's about it.

I knew a guy in college who did his master’s thesis on washing cars. He determined that you should keep your car squeaky clean or never wash it. Anything in-between was bad for the sheet metal. It had something to do with rust being facilitated by dirt up to the point where a solid coat of filth helped prevent rust. No dirt, no rust. Little dirt, lots of rust. Lots of dirt, no rust.

I’m not sure I believed him and I can’t find his paper anywhere online.

[nowhere]

@bicyclebuck Sounds kind of like the theory that when you get out of the shower you're the cleanest thing in the house so logically the bath towels should be getting cleaner every time they touch you - so you never need to launder those towels.

[MisterButtercup]

@rallydarkstrike said in Who needs a truck?:

@jminer said in Who needs a truck?:

Who needs a truck?

I'll tell you who doesn't...most of the people who have a truck, because 3/4 of them use them to get groceries and never actually use them haul anything or go off-road

#truth. And this comes from someone whose wife's vehicle is a truck. It'll come in handy when we move, but most of the time we don't even use the bed.

[Taylor Martin]

Station wagons are the superior thing and people movers and you can't change my mind.

[Taylor Martin]

@rallydarkstrike I saw a slammed truck today, lower than my car, and it begs the question: can you even put stuff in the bed? With literally an inch or two of ground clearance putting any weight on the suspension would cause the bumper to scratch on the asphalt.

Seems rather useless.

[jminer]

@taylor-martin said in Who needs a truck?:

@rallydarkstrike I saw a slammed truck today, lower than my car, and it begs the question: can you even put stuff in the bed? With literally an inch or two of ground clearance putting any weight on the suspension would cause the bumper to scratch on the asphalt.

Seems rather useless.

Those I actually appreciate, they're tossing to the wind the concepts of a truck and doing something completely different with it. Slammed duallies in particular make me laugh.